Catching up

The problem with not updating blogs regularly is that you lose out on the fizz of giving unwanted details to uninterested people! Well, to be frank I wanted to update the blog like 4-5 times since my last blog, all enthusiastically jumping, causing minor landslides. But now here I go on to the précis writing part much like John Abrahams emotional scenes.

Last Sunday, I went for the football match between Lajong FC and East Bengal iLeague match. What an atmosphere! Add to the fact that Lajong is the home team and IIM Shillong is providing management consultancy to the team. IIM Shillong rocks!! (that’s me smoothly doing PR) Coming back to the match, though our group of 17 were subdued on the cheering level, busy scouting for food - given we missed lunch and posing for photos, the atmosphere around us rocked! We had kids not taller than 3 feet swearing at the referee who didn’t give a free kick! To top it, the home team won 1-0 and we came back gloating, attributing their victory to our presence there.

The most colourful day of year, I ended up looking unrecognizable and unimaginably dirty! I come from that part of the country, where on holi, you mom scolds you for even thinking of going out to play. But let me tell you this is a slightly more decent than in my last year of VIT where people tore clothes and ran across the campus! The insti sportingly allowed us to play holi and thanks to our student bodies, we ended up making people who have never played before regret not playing for so long! Now, I can put this on paper(webpage) that in probably no other insti do you chase a prof to put colour nor does a faculty member drench your group in a bucket of water! What do i say, we rock! (yet another subtle move) Oh and awesome food! I love this festival.



Oh incidentally, since i wrote the 2nd paragraph, i’ve been to yet another Lajong match, this time wearing jerseys and posing for photographs sponsored by institute!! Plan to go again this week now that i’ve completed one year in PGPM! Yayyy. Go Lajong Go!! Of course my work is not done yet and so am in Shillong more busy than I ever was in Office! (ok, i know my office colleagues laugh when i say i was busy – just efficient ok??)

A note that we have to vacate the room, managed to stun me. Not the leaving the room bit, but the fact that I have clean the stuff out of this room. I’ve managed to maintain a 4 degree separation between everything i need on my table that makes it easier for me to find stuff (ahem). In office I had my friend who in all her excitement, used to talk to herself and clean up my table to make place to sit :P Too bad not many selfish people are around here (not exactly)

You know how they say pressure makes you see what people really are made of? In times of secret identities, edgy bosses, crying maidens and winning KKR (buhahaha), I believe I’m happy with the way most things have worked out. Although there have been times where I was willing to believe a proctologist doesn’t have to encounter so many s per day as I have to, a mild pat on our backs for riding through. And here I bear witness to the first rains of Shillong which incidentally is hail. Tiny pearls of ice glistening on the wet mud with the intoxicating smell - life is hectic but good.

Looking forward to getting my job done, going home and my Internship with people I’m looking forward to meet (in that order)!